That is their law, which even Amochol could not break." "It was a mercy that our little Lois appealed not to His Excellency, so that the word ran through Canada by flag to Haldimand." "She might have done this," said the Sagamore quietly.

"She asked me at Poundridge how this might be accomplished.

But when I made it clear to her that it meant her mother's death, she said no more about it." "But pushed on blindly by herself," I exclaimed, "braving the sombre Northland forests with her little ragged feet--half naked, hungry, friendless, and alone, facing each terror calmly, possessed only of her single purpose! O Sagamore of a warrior clan that makes a history of brave deeds done, can you read in the records of your most ancient wampum a braver history than this ?" He said: "Let what this maid has done be written in the archives of the white men, where are gathered the records of brave but unwise deeds.

So shall those who come after you know how to praise and where to pity our little rosy pigeon of the forest.

No rash young warrior of my own people, bound to the stake itself can boast of greater bravery than this.